This post celebrates and thanks Joe Parry as he takes a well-deserved bow and steps down from his role as the head of the JavaScript & NodeJS Cambridge Meetup Group.
He has been an extraordinary leader who has dedicated the past ten years to fostering a vibrant community of Javascriptors in Cambridge.
Companies must be agile and respond quickly to changing customer needs in today's fast-paced and constantly evolving technology landscape. That's why DevOps practices that emphasise collaboration and communication between development and operations teams to deliver software rapidly, reliably, and at scale have become increasingly popular.
Shifting left, a core principle of DevOps can significantly benefit companies of all sizes. By empowering engineers to take on more operations responsibilities and promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation, companies can improve collaboration, increase reliability, and deliver high-quality software at scale.
In this post, I'll discuss how and why Cambridge University Press adopted a shift left culture.
Pino is a popular and fast Node.js logging library that is designed for high-performance and low-overhead logging. It has many useful features, including support for structured logging, log levels, and log redaction.
Pino logging redaction allows you easily redact sensitive information logs, ensuring applications remain secure and compliant with regulations.
In this post, we'll take a closer look at Pino logging redaction functionality, what it is, and how it can be used with examples.
Read More →Logging is an essential part of any application, providing insight into the what's happening behind the scenes. However, as your codebase grows, it can be challenging to keep track of all the different log statements and where they're coming from. This is where child loggers come in.
Child loggers are a feature of many of the Node.js logging libraries such as Pino, Bunyan and winston have that allow you to create a new logger that inherits the configuration of its parent logger.
This means you can create child loggers that are pre-configured with specific options, making it easier to log messages without repeating the same configuration over and over again.
In this blog post, we'll take a look at an example of how child loggers can help cut down on repetition in TypeScript and Pino.
Read More →Engineers are responsible for designing and building complex systems that are expected to perform optimally under different conditions. However, without a deep understanding of how these systems behave, they risk making assumptions that can result in inefficiencies or even system failures.
In this post, we'll discuss why understanding a system like a doctor helping a patient is essential for engineers and by taking a proactive and data-driven approach, engineers can ensure that their systems are performing optimally and can make informed decisions that result in improved performance and reliability.
As engineers, one of our primary responsibilities is to ensure that the systems we build are stable and reliable.
However, despite our best efforts, issues and issues will inevitably arise in production environments. When this happens, it can be tempting to try and patch the problem and move on quickly.
However, recreating production issues locally is a critical step in the debugging and resolution process.
In this post, I'll explain the benefits of reproducing production issues locally.
Some organisations have great onboarding processes, others not so much.
Having experienced onboarding with many clients over the years, I want to share what a good onboarding process is for an engineer.
When working with clients, how teams communicate tells me more about the culture than anything else.
Successful teams should communicate like a team fielding in a game of cricket who work together towards the same goal giving each other support and encouragement.
By sharing information about the batters, pitch, conditions and strategy, a feilding team agree on a plan on how to bowl and position themselves.
A good facilitator seamlessly keeps the flow of conversations fluent and relevant, encouraging people to engage and have equal participation while remaining impartial and patient.
It's a role similar to a conductor orchestrating a choir.
Framer Motion makes creating a sequence of animations easy.
In this example, we will create a React component that animates a circle in the center of three boxes.
